Add details on links to titles with footnotes

- dita-ot/dita-ot#4269 - dita-ot/dita-ot#4276 Signed-off-by: Roger Sheen <[email protected]>
dita-ot · Oct 1, 2023 · 4df0c75 · 4df0c75
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@@ -108,8 +108,10 @@
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4264" format="html" scope="external">#4264</xref>,
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4280" format="html" scope="external">#4280</xref>
           </li>
-          <li id="4269">Footnote in <xmlelement>title</xmlelement>, footnote text appears in <xmlelement
-            >xref</xmlelement>
+          <li id="4269">In earlier versions, cross-references or other links to titles that contained footnotes included
+            the footnote text. For a link to a target element that has no explicit link text, DITA-OT computes default
+            link text from the target element. Link text computation now ignores any <xmlelement>fn</xmlelement>
+            elements it encounters, so the link shows only the text from the <xmlelement>title</xmlelement> element.
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4269" format="html" scope="external">#4269</xref>
           </li>
           <li id="4275">Different topicmeta/navtitle should keep their value even if the target file is the same